Word: burstyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open City (Minerva; Mayer-Burstyn; TIME, March...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
Open City (Minerva; Mayer-Burstyn) was made in 1944-45 by Italians in Italian. The first major film to be produced in the new Italy, it tells a brutally frank story of the German occupation: the worries and dislocations of Roman family life, the work of anti-Fascist partisans, the horrors of Gestapo methods of torture...
...American audiences, anxious about the American cinema art, the Mayer-Burstyn production of John Steinbeck's "The Forgotten Village," released in 1941, should be of considerable interest. It is worth noting, primarily, that no major studio took on this documentary of the Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area...
...Forgotten Village (Kline; Mayer-Burstyn) is a documentary film of integrity and beauty, the story of the triumph of modern medicine over an archaic female herb doctor in the squalid village of Santiago, high in the mountains of Mexico's centra! plateau. Its post-production history is the triumph of reason over the paleolithic prejudice of New York State's three-man-four-woman board of movie censors, who banned the picture because it was "indecent . . . inhuman...